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In 1900, a mere 35 years after the Civil War had ended the practice of one human being owning another, Pauline Hopkins, black and female, published Contending Forces, whose rediscovery here shocks us into recognition that our national literature does indeed contain examples of black awareness and pride.
Like Harriet Beecher Stowe, Pauline Hopkins writes of the injustices suffered by blacks at the hands of whites. But her novel penetrates deeper than Uncle Tom's Cabin. Nor is the white man the sole devil in Hopkins's fiction; there are the contending forces: "Conservatism, lack of brotherly affiliation, lack of energy for the right and the power of the almighty dollar which deadens men's hearts to the sufferings of their brothers, and makes them feel that if only they can rise to the top of the ladder may God help the hindermost man, are . . . the contending forces that are dooming this race to despair."
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Rating★★★★ 3.9 (1K)
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GenreRomance
Length8 hrs 58 mins
Narrated byMargaret Espaillat
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateNov 27, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface
2A Retrospect of the Past
3The Days "Before the War"
4"Coming Events Cast their Shadows Before"
5The Tragedy
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6Ma Smith's Lodging-House
7Ma Smith's Lodging-House - Concluded
8Friendship
9The Sewing-Circle
10"Love Took up the Harp of Life"
11The Fair
12The Fair - Concluded
13A Colored Politician
14The American Colored League
15Luke Sawyer Speaks to the League
16Will Smith's Defense of his Race
17John Langley Consults Madam Frances
18The Canterbury Club Dinner
19What Easter Sunday Brought
20The Bitter Arrow
21Mother-Love
22After Many Days
23"So He Bringeth Them into their Desired Haven"
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